Popcorn Playa: Kung Pow: Enter the Fist

Kung Pow is a spoof martial arts movie produced, directed, and written by Steve Oedekerk. Oedekerk digitally inserted himself in the movie to play as the Chosen One, the main character of the film. He also dubbed all of the characters lines in the movie. The story of Kung Pow starts with the Chosen One growing up in the wild after his family was murdered by the evil Master Pain. He then finds shelter in the Crane School and falls in love with a girl and figures out a way to avenge his parents death.

*Gasps for breath* This is the recurring feeling that you would feel all throughout the movie experience. Shortness of breath is normal when you get to watch this movie. Just 10 minutes of the whole movie, I was already crying and holding my chest because of shortness of breath from all that laughing. The humor is more on slapstick and when they say slapstick, it's like getting slapped in the rib cage continuously with a stick made out of humor!

Kung Pow is like a day in the carnival, everything is just awesome, wild, unpredictable, funny, gives you a headache(but the good type), funny, did I say that already? Well I can't help it, one funny is not enough to describe this movie.

Here's a better description. Close your eyes. Imagine you just got back from the dentist and you're still high from all the laughing gas he gave you. So you walk down the street and see these Jamaican men having a hash brownie eating contest, so you decide to join in and finish 37 brownies and to top that you chug down a 2 liter red bull made with real laughter juice extracted from clown membranes.

Now open your eyes. Awesome? That's Kung Pow.

Popcorn Playa: Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy stars Will Ferrell as Ron Burgundy, an anchorman in San Diego in the 70's. As a top-rated news anchorman in a male dominated world, Ron Burgundy is like a God walking among mere mortals. But when feminism marches into the news room, and a new ambitious newswoman Veronica Corningstone (Christina Applegate) steps into the scene; tensions between Ron and the news team arises, and the war between superiority begins.

Anchorman is my all time favorite movie. I've watched it for more than 30 times already, and it never stopped me from laughing. From its slap stick humor, all the way to its racial and sexist jokes; Anchorman is definitely a must watch movie. This movie is like hash brownies with a sprinkle of awesomeness and a scoop of kick-ass ice cream on top. The movie is 1 hour and 40 minutes long of pure marijuana induced, rugby drenched, laughing gas induced awesomeness!

I recommend this for people who have problems in their prostate. To those who are having a hard time pee-ing; if you watch this, I guarantee you that you won't even make it to the toilet.

Popcorn Playa: White Chicks

OH-MY-GOD! This is just one of the things that you will hear all througout the movie. White Chicks is absolutely hilarious. It's about two African-American FBI Agents, played by Shawn and Marlon Wayans, who volunteers to be on a case in order to get back into their Chief's good graces. The task was just to escort the Wilson sistersto the Hamptons for the weekend because of threats of being kidnapped for ransom. On their way to the Hamptons, the girls and the agents get into an accident which results to the two FBI agents going undercover as the Wilson sisters. The movie revolves around the two FBI agents who go undercover and experience what it is like to be in the shoes of the Wilson sisters, and at the same time try to figure out who the kidnappers are.

This movie is like an inverted Oreo. Why? Because it's white on the outside, and black on the inside! This movie is full of stereotypes, racial jokes, and other things that'd would really get you laughing like a Hyena in the Lion King movie. It's funny because the two agents are African-American and they are going undercover as white girls. Sometimes they can't help it and they say and do things that white girls don't normally do, like run like a track star, beat up male strippers, flirt with girls they like, and say the N word while singing to the song of 50 cent.

Another thing that kept me laughing was this character named Latrell Spencer, played by Terry Crews. He's a professional basketball player who goes to the Hamptons for the weekend to find a girl whom he can take home. In the movie, he gets attracted to one of the Wilson sisters who in fact is one of the FBI agents. He tries all sorts of ways in order to get the girl, and I just have to say, everything he does, he did it hilariously! He's a big buff black dude who surprisingly, acts like he's white. How funny can that be right?

I'd have to give this movie a rating of B, for BLACK! It's really good, and if you don't find it funny, then you're a friggin racist!

Popcorn Playa: Taken

This movie has to be one of the most badass movies that I've ever seen in my life. Taken stars Liam Nesson as Bryan, an ex-CIA agent who retired early in order to be close to her teenage daughter Kim (Maggie Grace). His work kept him away from her daughter Kim, and he's now making up for lost time. When Bryan's daughter said that she was going to Paris with her friend Amanda; he was against it because he knows what the real world is like, and for two teenage girls who are traveling without a chaperone, it was very dangerous. But he gave his daughter the permission to go just as long as she calls him when they arrive and every time they move to a new location. His worst nightmare came true when he receieves a call from his daughter saying that they were being abducted. With the help of his other CIA agents, he found out that the abductors were an Albanian gang who specializes in trafficking women especially teenagers. Using his skills that he has acquired over the years, he goes to Paris and becomes this super agent who tracks down the abductors of his daughter.

One word. Two syllables. BADASS! This is the word that describes this movie. If I were to approach anyone and say badass in front of them, they'd automatically say, yeah I know right, Taken is such an awesome movie, and probably give me a high-five! It's like it's already implanted on their brains that the word badass originated from the movie Taken. The reason why it's such a badass movie is that Liam Nesson is just a normal person with super intense arm breaking skills, neck twisting tricks, and spleen bursting punches with a little bit of class when he does it. Not like in the James Bond movies where in he has all this high-tech gadgets like a watch that turns into a car that could be a urinal and can also turn into a hot-tub that could fit 10 people. No, Liam Nesson is just not into those techy things. He just brings a wallet, a cellphone, and an English-Albanian dictionary and busts into the lair of the abductors and starts kicking everones asses without even staining his Italian suit. He's so intense that one time he goes to this French dudes house who's like an Internal Security Chief of the Eiffel Tower whatever, and had dinner with his family. Then out of nowhere, he takes out his gun and pops one on the shoulder of his friend's wife. He was all like, "If you don't give me an answer, imma pop another one on her head!" Talk about disrespect right? But he did it in a cool way.

This movie is just great. Imagine a retired old man, who wears a Hawaiian polo during the day and drinks papaya shake for his digestive system to be healthy; turns into this Italian suit wearing, Limb breaking, Gang tracking maniac at night, who kills bad guys for kicks! Who wouldn't want to see that right?

I'd say this movie should be rated R. R for Ridiculously Badass. Anyway if you want to see a 1 hour and 30 minute movie of intense action; watch this movie, because after you've watched it, you're gonna want to take up martial arts.

Popcorn Playa: Dan in Real Life

I was surfing the channels on TV to see if something good was on the other night, and I stumbled upon this movie being shown in HBO. It was entitled Dan in Real Life. I've seen it before but I decided to watch it again because there was nothing good on TV that night.

Dan in Real Life stars Steve Carrell as Dan Burns an advice columnist who has three daughters who still takes care of them and treats them as if they would never grow up. It's been four years since the death of his wife, and since then Dan has never tried dating again. When the family went to Rhode Island to visit their relatives who were on a vacation, Dan meets this woman in a bookstore named Marie. After a long chat and a cup of coffee with her, Dan thinks that they're compatible with each other; but suddenly finds out after going home that the woman was dating his brother. The whole time that the family was in their relatives house, Dan tries to struggle in controlling his feelings for Marie by balancing humor and sadness at the same time.

I found this movie to be very good, and perhaps one of my favorites. I liked how Steve Carrell can be a really good comedian and at the same time still manage to do good in drama. He's a really good actor, because not all comedians can do both. I'd like to say that it's a sappy movie, because after watching it, you'd feel happy and sad at the same time. It has a weird feel to it, but it's really nice. It's a must watch!